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'This is an exciting time
for Adobe, for innovation
in software, and for
designers and developers
who are driving the Web
forward,' said Adobe CTO
Kevin Lynch today as
Adobe announced the
availability of Adobe AIR
and Adobe Flex 3
software, furthering the
Adobe technology platform
for
Ulitzer.com which
initially made the
headlines with its 'job
descriptions from the
future,' announced that
it will launch its
Ulitzer 'beta' site on
July 4, 2008, with 5,500
authors and 600,000
original articles,
published in more than
5,000 topic-specific
online journals. Each
journal
It is clear that RIAs
offer the potential to
fundamentally change the
user experience and in
doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. However, in
order for RIAs to be
widely employed, and for
more companies to receive
these kinds of returns,
technologies to build
RIAs will need t
Enterprise mashups - the
convergence of Web 2.0
mashups and
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) - can
create a world of
opportunities for
enterprises to come up
with internal and
customer-facing
self-service, composite
and 'situational'
applications. These
applications can be
created j
I am always being told
off by i-technologists
for quoting Picasso as
having said that
computers are useless.
But I still love his
reasoning: 'Because they
can only give you
answers.' Picasso, like
AJAXWorld Magazine, liked
questions. So we thought
we would share with you
what some of t
If you are starting a new
AJAX project, I highly
recommend that you watch
the video of a
presentation made by an
expert AJAX developer
Joseph Smarr from Plaxo.
Joseph is very
experienced AJAX
developer, and if after
watching this
presentation you don't
get goose bumps, go ahead
and sta
SYS-CON.TV's 'Rich
Internet Applications
Shootout' presented by
AJAXWorld Magazine,
streamed live from
SYS-CON.TV's Times Square
Studios. During the
program, several emerging
Rich Web technologies
were discussed by a panel
of RIA experts and
SYS-CON's industry
bloggers.
Microsoft today attempted
to exorcize the
interoperability bogeymen
that have haunted it
since it was first
discovered to be using
secret APIs 20 years ago,
bogeymen that now quote
European antitrust law at
it and carry writs from
the Court of First
Instance in Luxembourg.
To avoid fur
ICEsoft Technologies is a
leading provider of
standards-compliant,
AJAX-based solutions for
developing and deploying
Java EE, rich Internet
applications. The
company's portfolio of
enterprise level Java
products includes
ICEfaces, an AJAX
application framework
that enables Java EE appl
Nexaweb announced its
Winter 2008 eConference
Series aimed at helping
software developers,
enterprise architects and
executives learn best
practices and strategies
for building and
deploying
enterprise-class
composite, ?mashup? and
Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs).
As the momentum for the
new class of SOA
middleware continues to
grow, developers are
looking for simple yet
scalable solutions that
can integrate disparate
data across a variety of
on-premises, on-demand
and Web 2.0 information
sources and applications.
With many of such data
integrat
When it comes to rich
Internet application
(RIA) technologies,
application development
professionals must choose
between two paths: AJAX
or Adobe. AJAX is the
best bet for experienced
Web development shops
looking to incrementally
evolve existing Web
applications. Of course,
selecting
AJAXWorld in 2007 was
sponsored by the world's
leading rich web
technology providers
including: 3Tera,
Addison-Wesley, Adobe,
Apress, Backbase,
Bindows, Conference Guru,
Cynergy Systems, Dynamic
Toolbar, Extension Media,
Farata Systems, Flash
Goddess, FrogLogic,
GoingToMeet.com, Google
Ulitzer, Inc., which
initially made the
headlines with its 'job
descriptions from the
future,' announced today
that it will launch its
Ulitzer 'beta' site on
July 4, 2008, with 5,500
authors and 600,000
original articles,
published in more than
5,000 topic-specific
online journals. Eac
Project Insight has
released new upgrades in
7.1 that feature the
ability to create Project
Insight tasks and issues
from Outlook e-mails, an
AJAX-enabled, team member
customizable time entry
grid; portfolio, project,
and task snapshot
reports; project
profitability and
recovery report
I met Jonas Jacobi and
John Fallows just after
Thanksgiving as they
pitched their product for
inclusion at DEMO. Having
helped launch the first
Web server at DEMO more
than 10 years ago, I
understood immediately
the importance of what
they are providing in
this technology. On the
spot,
For applications that run
via the Web, should they
be AJAX-based, or do
AIR/Flash/Flex, JavaFX,
or Silverlight offer
better results? To
inspire you to come to
AJAXWorld 2008 East and
choose your direction for
Rich Internet
Applications, here's a
brief selection from
among the many doze
Being held for the first
time on March 18, 2008 at
the historic Roosevelt
Hotel in New York City,
AJAXWorld Security
Bootcamp is a compelling,
intensive, one-day,
hands-on training program
that will teach Web
developers, Web
designers, and other Web
professionals how to
build secure AJ
Appcelerator, Inc. is an
open source software
company specializing in
products and services for
rapid rich Internet
application (RIA) and
SOA-based services
development. The
Appcelerator Platform
SDKs enable developers to
develop rich Ajax and
DHTML applications using
cross-browser wid
So is O'Reilly actually
condoning the hacking of
the phones? O'Reilly has
had a long and
prestigious history as
being the ultimate source
for *nix manuals,
including many books that
became so dogeared I
actually bought multiple
copies, including dozens
of 'in a nutshell' books.
Back in
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having
looked at a
representative sample, I
can be confident that
Sturgeon's Law applies -
I suspect if I sampled
enough of them I
www.online-degree-college
.org is providing
prospective students with
online degree programs
information offered by
online colleges. An
online degree gives the
working professionals a
chance to advance in
their career without the
need to quit their jobs.
They have partnered with
over 10
videoNEXT announced the
release of (version 2.5)
to its Security Knowledge
Manager (SKM). The new
enhancements of this
scalable IP surveillance
and security solution
focus on advancements in
its Access Control
Integration Framework and
Command and Control
capabilities.
Enterprise mashups have
been going steadily more
mainstream since 2006,
when the AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo first
began giving houseroom to
sessions by the pioneers
of enabling the fusion of
employee expertise and
rich information to
produce new insights and
winning strategies. This
M
Is AJAX fit to serve as
spear carrier for
next-generation Web
technology? That
question, asked by the
San Diego Business
Journal in March 2007,
was answered by the sheer
scale of the last two
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expos, in March (New
York) and September
(Santa Clara). The
undisputed
Web application
developers and designers
often give up on building
rich, interactive user
interfaces because they
lack the JavaScript
skills to make it happen.
AJAX development power
tools - including
Dreamweaver, Spry and
off-the-shelf AJAX
components - make it easy
to build rich user
Netbiscuits is the first
mobile software
development platform to
support Adobe Flash and
AJAX technologies so
developers can create the
next-generation Mobile
Internet experience
worldwide. Now media,
content and advertising
professionals have a full
solution to deliver
high-quality, t
Openwave Systems
announced Openwave Rich
Mail 3.0, a new solution
designed for
carrier-scale deployment
by broadband and mobile
operators around the
world. An extension of
Openwave's successful
AJAX-based Rich Mail
offering, the Openwave
Rich Mail 3.0 offering is
designed to enable a c
Openwave Systems
announced the
availability of Openwave
Rich Mail 3.0, a new
solution designed for
carrier-scale deployment
by broadband and mobile
operators. Openwave Rich
Mail 3.0, which is an
extension of Openwave's
AJAX-based Rich Mail
offering, offers a
central point of access
for
Netconcepts announced the
launch of GravityStream
2.0 - a powerful
enterprise level
automated natural search
advertising platform for
online retailers.
GravityStream 2.0
automatically converts a
retailer's millions of
website pages into
optimized landing pages
to match its branded prod
Trolltech has integrated
its Qt cross-platform
development framework
with WebKit, the web
browser technology used
in Apple's iPhone and
millions of Nokia
smartphones. The
integration of Qt and
WebKit will enable mobile
operators and handset
manufacturers to create a
customer experience
WSO2 announced the debut
of the WSO2 Registry, the
industry's first registry
to combine
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
governance with Web 2.0
collaboration. The open
source WSO2 Registry
features a structured
registry and repository;
Web-based interface; and
Web 2.0 community fea
Vitria announced a Web
2.0 BPM suite that
empowers business users
to directly model,
manage, monitor and
optimize their business
processes -- Vitria's
M3O. Business analysts
can now model and execute
business processes in a
rich web-based
environment in direct
collaboration with their
Google, IBM, Microsoft,
Yahoo and Verisign have
all become the OpenID
Foundation's first
corporate board members,
giving a push to the
seven-month-old group's
ideas about portable web
identities or OpenIDs and
how personal information
is shared online,
something that Google,
Yahoo and
Those startups have it
easy. Okay, startups
don't have it easy where
products, funding,
customers, or revenue are
concerned. But when it
comes to building slick
AJAX applications, if
you're an enterprise
developer, you have a lot
more to worry about than
they do. This article
discusse
I see many consumer
Internet pitches these
days where the basic
marketing strategy is to
(1) get covered by
TechCrunch, (2) get tens
of thousands of users
from the 'TechCrunch
Bump,' and then (3) 'grow
virally.' While a
positive TechCrunch
review has the potential
to send thousands of
Some of the most scared
people inside Yahoo right
now have got to be the
open source Zimbra crowd
that Yahoo acquired last
September for $350
million for its
Microsoft-opposing
enterprise-directed
e-mail and calendaring,
folks who just released
their webby AJAX-based
Collaboration Suit
Quasar Technologies, a
global provider of
AJAX-based, Web 2.0,
services-oriented
Enterprise Content
Publishing (ECP)
solutions, has
successfully integrated
its automatic pagination
software, Paginator, for
Medicom Editorial to
automatically create
Vademecum International,
the prestigio
Web 2.0 is one of the
hottest things on the
consumer Web, but where
does it fit in the
enterprise? What's the
business value and how
can developers use new
Web 2.0 mashups to bring
value to the
line-of-business users?
In this session Rod Smith
discusses what IBM is
doing in the Web 2.0
Last year Forrester
interviewed 13 vendor
companies - including
Adobe Systems, Backbase,
Curl, Cynergy Systems,
EffectiveUI, Esria, IBM,
Laszlo Systems,
Microsoft, Nexaweb
Technologies, Oracle,
Roundarch, and SAP - for
a report by Erica Driver
and Ron Rogowski called
'RIAs Bring People
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
'This is an exciting time
for Adobe, for innovation
in software, and for
designers and developers
who are driving the Web
forward,' said Adobe CTO
Kevin Lynch today as
Adobe announced the
availability of Adobe AIR
and Adobe Flex 3
software, furthering the
Adobe technology platform
for 
Ulitzer.com which
initially made the
headlines with its 'job
descriptions from the
future,' announced that
it will launch its
Ulitzer 'beta' site on
July 4, 2008, with 5,500
authors and 600,000
original articles,
published in more than
5,000 topic-specific
online journals. Each
journal 
It is clear that RIAs
offer the potential to
fundamentally change the
user experience and in
doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. However, in
order for RIAs to be
widely employed, and for
more companies to receive
these kinds of returns,
technologies to build
RIAs will need t
Enterprise mashups - the
convergence of Web 2.0
mashups and
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) - can
create a world of
opportunities for
enterprises to come up
with internal and
customer-facing
self-service, composite
and 'situational'
applications. These
applications can be
created j
I am always being told
off by i-technologists
for quoting Picasso as
having said that
computers are useless.
But I still love his
reasoning: 'Because they
can only give you
answers.' Picasso, like
AJAXWorld Magazine, liked
questions. So we thought
we would share with you
what some of t
If you are starting a new
AJAX project, I highly
recommend that you watch
the video of a
presentation made by an
expert AJAX developer
Joseph Smarr from Plaxo.
Joseph is very
experienced AJAX
developer, and if after
watching this
presentation you don't
get goose bumps, go ahead
and sta
Microsoft today attempted
to exorcize the
interoperability bogeymen
that have haunted it
since it was first
discovered to be using
secret APIs 20 years ago,
bogeymen that now quote
European antitrust law at
it and carry writs from
the Court of First
Instance in Luxembourg.
To avoid fur
As the momentum for the
new class of SOA
middleware continues to
grow, developers are
looking for simple yet
scalable solutions that
can integrate disparate
data across a variety of
on-premises, on-demand
and Web 2.0 information
sources and applications.
With many of such data
integrat 
When it comes to rich
Internet application
(RIA) technologies,
application development
professionals must choose
between two paths: AJAX
or Adobe. AJAX is the
best bet for experienced
Web development shops
looking to incrementally
evolve existing Web
applications. Of course,
selecting 
For applications that run
via the Web, should they
be AJAX-based, or do
AIR/Flash/Flex, JavaFX,
or Silverlight offer
better results? To
inspire you to come to
AJAXWorld 2008 East and
choose your direction for
Rich Internet
Applications, here's a
brief selection from
among the many doze
Being held for the first
time on March 18, 2008 at
the historic Roosevelt
Hotel in New York City,
AJAXWorld Security
Bootcamp is a compelling,
intensive, one-day,
hands-on training program
that will teach Web
developers, Web
designers, and other Web
professionals how to
build secure AJ
Appcelerator, Inc. is an
open source software
company specializing in
products and services for
rapid rich Internet
application (RIA) and
SOA-based services
development. The
Appcelerator Platform
SDKs enable developers to
develop rich Ajax and
DHTML applications using
cross-browser wid
So is O'Reilly actually
condoning the hacking of
the phones? O'Reilly has
had a long and
prestigious history as
being the ultimate source
for *nix manuals,
including many books that
became so dogeared I
actually bought multiple
copies, including dozens
of 'in a nutshell' books.
Back in
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having
looked at a
representative sample, I
can be confident that
Sturgeon's Law applies -
I suspect if I sampled
enough of them I
Is AJAX fit to serve as
spear carrier for
next-generation Web
technology? That
question, asked by the
San Diego Business
Journal in March 2007,
was answered by the sheer
scale of the last two
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expos, in March (New
York) and September
(Santa Clara). The
undisputed 
Web application
developers and designers
often give up on building
rich, interactive user
interfaces because they
lack the JavaScript
skills to make it happen.
AJAX development power
tools - including
Dreamweaver, Spry and
off-the-shelf AJAX
components - make it easy
to build rich user
Those startups have it
easy. Okay, startups
don't have it easy where
products, funding,
customers, or revenue are
concerned. But when it
comes to building slick
AJAX applications, if
you're an enterprise
developer, you have a lot
more to worry about than
they do. This article
discusse 
